"Oblivion" is a song by Bastille from their first album Bad Blood. It is going to be the seventh and last single released from Bad Blood. A video for the single was released, as well as the single cover, in July 2014.

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Background and meaning

"Oblivion" is the eighth song on their first album Bad Blood. It was released as the seventh single from the album, eighth including "Of the Night" from All This Bad Blood. A live version of the song recorded at Capitol Studios was realeased as the B-side to the "Of the Night" single.

It was written by Dan who said that ""Oblivion" is about trying to follow someone to the place they go when they lose their mind". He has also said on a different occasion that "[Oblivion] tells of an intimate moment in which someone is telling their passed out friend that ‘however hard they try, they can never manage to follow them to whatever level of inebriated escape they manage to get to.’"[1]

The song was first performed live in September 2012 at the iTunes Festival in London.[2] The band confirmed during their headline gig at London’s Somerset House on July 15th that "Oblivion" would be the next single.[3]

Music video

A video was shot for the song in June, 2014.[4] The video leaked on Vimeo on the 17th July, 2014, but was taken down the next day. The video premiered on MSN on the 21st July[5][6], and was uploaded to their VEVO channel the next day.[7] It was directed by Austin Peters, who has also directed the "Flaws" video. The video stars the Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner. The video features her singing "Oblivion" at a demolition derby.[8]

Music Video

Information

Bastille - Oblivion

full

Premiere

July 21 2014

Filmed

June, 2014

Director

Austin Peters

Producer

Brooke McDaniel, Sasha Nixon

Production co

Forever Pictures

Exec. producer

Editor

Taylor Ward

Choreographer

Length

4:11

Source

In popular culture

The song was featured in "O Come, All Ye Faithful", the ninth episode of the fourth season of The Vampire Diaries.